Friday, April 20, 2007

Cold Pill Crackdown Annotation

Margot Roosevelt."Cold-Pill Crackdown, to fight the meth epidemic,
states go after legal sniffle remedies at the corner drugstore."
Time incorperated Feb. 7, 2005 Vol. 165, No. 6 pp. 56-57

in this article, margot roosevelt explains specific instances where consumers abuse the decongestant pseudoephedrine in medications such as sudafed. people have found out that they can use the ingredients in such medince to create the drug, methamphetamine. since such cases were found and an overwhelming amount of meth busts had been made, officials in most states have ordered that those medicines containing pseudoephedrine be put behind the counter.

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